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They went through the conservatory into the park, and sauntered over the springy pastureland, whilst Brett amused the ladies by a carefully edited account of his visit to the Jiro family. An hour passed in pleasant chat. Then Miss Layton thought it was time she went home, and Brett proposed to escort her to the Rectory, subsequently picking up his conveyance at the inn.
Somehow, the barrister imagined that the third visitant of that fateful New Year's Eve two years ago would not trouble the neighbourhood again. Herein he was mistaken. At the county town he experienced little difficulty in learning the antecedents of Mrs. Numagawa Jiro. In the first hotel he entered he found a young lady behind the bar who was not only well acquainted with Mrs.
I might have known that such a desperate scoundrel would soon make another attempt, and next time upon the right person. You followed Mrs. Jiro. I am led astray by a cooked fowl. Oh, Winter, Winter, who could suspect such depravity in a roasted chicken!" "I'm dashed if I can guess what you're driving at," growled the detective. "No; I understand.
The last struggle in behalf of the Southern line took place in 1443, when "a band of determined men under Kusunoki Jiro and the Court noble, Hino Arimitsu, suddenly assailed the palace from two directions; all but succeeded in killing or capturing the Emperor, and actually got possession of the regalia.
"What is it?" she demanded, surveying him suspiciously. "I wish to see Mr. Jiro," he said, "but permit me to apologise for making such an untimely call. As he is not at home, I must not trouble you beyond inquiring a likely hour to see him to-morrow." He smiled so pleasantly that the lady became more complaisant.
Jiro screwed his queer little eyes upon the scrawling characters. The methods of writing in the Far East, being pictorial and inexact, require scrutiny of the context before a given sentence can be correctly interpreted. The little man made no trouble about it, however. "They are old chalacters," he said. "In Japan we joke a lot. Evely sign has sevelal meanings. This can be lead two ways.
To jump on to a moving 'bus was just the thing. Yes, there is no denying that you are d d smart." "Winter, your unreasonable jealousy is making you vulgar." "Wouldn't any man swear, sir? Why did I let such a handful as Mrs. Jiro slip through my fingers the other day? Clue! Why, it was a perfect bale of cotton.
Again, why did he lie about the type-writer, and endeavour to mislead him as to the make of the machine he used? To-morrow, for a certainty, Jiro would dispose of the Remington which he now possessed. Well, he should meet with a ready purchaser, if a letter from Brett to every agency in London would expedite matters.
Brett left them under no doubt from the commencement. He addressed his remarks wholly to the Japanese. "You have an acquaintance perhaps I should say a confederate residing at No. 37 Middle Street, Kennington " he began. "I do not understand," broke in Jiro, whose sallow face crinkled like a withered apple in the effort to display non-comprehension. "Oh yes, you do. The man's name is Ooma.
One day there wasn't any Baby at all, and the next day after that, there he was, looking very new but quite at home already in the little house in the garden, where Taro and Take lived. "Taro" means eldest son, and the Baby might have been called "Jiro," because "Jiro" means "second," and he was the second boy in the family; but from the day he came they called him just "Bot'Chan."
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